brutality

English

Etymology

brutal +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɹuːˈtælɪti/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(California, US) IPA^(key): /bɹuˈtælɪɾi/

Noun

brutality (plural brutalities)

The state of being brutal.
A cruel or savage act.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
  ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
The use of excessive physical force, often in the form of violence.
police brutality

school brutality

Derived terms

police brutality

Translations

a state of being brutal

Armenian: վայրագություն (hy) (vayragutʿyun)
Azerbaijani: zalımlıq (az)
Catalan: brutalitat f
Chechen: къизалла (qʼizalla)
Czech: brutalita (cs) f
Dutch: wreedheid (nl)
Esperanto: brutaleco
Finnish: raakuus (fi), julmuus (fi), brutaalius (fi)
French: brutalité (fr) f
Galician: brutalidade (gl) f
German: Brutalität (de) f
Greek: αγριότητα (el) f (agriótita)
Ancient: θηριότης f (thēriótēs)
Hungarian: brutalitás (hu)
Irish: brúidiúlacht f
Italian: brutalità (it)
Luxembourgish: Brutalitéit f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: brutalitet m

Nynorsk: brutalitet m
Ottoman Turkish: حیوانلق (hayvanlık)
Polish: brutalizm (pl) m, brutalność (pl) f
Portuguese: brutalidade (pt) f
Romanian: brutalitate (ro) f
Russian: жесто́кость (ru) m (žestókostʹ), зве́рство (ru) n (zvérstvo)
Scottish Gaelic: brùidealachd f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: брута́лно̄ст f

Roman: brutálnōst (sh) f
Spanish: brutalidad f
Swedish: brutalitet (sv) c
Ukrainian: брутальність (uk) f (brutalʹnistʹ)

a cruel act

Armenian: վայրագություն (hy) (vayragutʿyun)
Finnish: raakuus (fi), julmuus (fi)
Polish: okrucieństwo (pl) n
Romanian: brutalitate (ro) f
Ukrainian: бузувірство (uk) n (buzuvirstvo)

The use of excessive physical force, often in the form of violence

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Finnish: väkivalta (fi)
French: brutalité (fr) f
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German: Brutalität (de) f
Hungarian: brutalitás (hu)
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Polish: brutalność (pl) f
Romanian: brutalitate (ro) f
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Ukrainian: брутальність (uk) f (brutalʹnistʹ), надмірність f (nadmirnistʹ)

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Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} жестокост (bg) f (žestokost), ^{(please verify)} бруталност (bg) f (brutalnost)

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